Spotlight Article: API Eventing Is The Next Big Opportunity For API Providers by James Higginbotham

In this article, James Higginbotham outlines 5 reasons why your product’s API should support events. He discusses this in the context of ‘API Eventing’, whereby APIs become event-driven.

For the last decade, modern web APIs have grown from solutions like Flickr, to robust platforms that generate new business models. Throughout this period of growth, most APIs have been limited to request-response over HTTP. We are now seeing a move back to eventing with the popularity of webhooks to connect SaaS solutions, the introduction of technologies such as Kafka to drive internal messaging, and the need for integrating IoT devices.

API eventing completely changes the way API consumers interact with our APIs, creating new possibilities that request-response cannot. Let’s examine the driving factors contributing to the rise of API eventing in greater detail, along with the opportunities that may inspire you to consider adding API event support to your API.

Justin BakerAuthor

Justin Baker is a Sr. Product Designer at Ten-X | Auction.com, leading design on Auction.com's core technology systems. He grew up in the Dev Tools space and is the former Lead Product Designer at LaunchDarkly. He is also a product marketer who writes for DZone, Tech.co, and Tech Ladder.

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